If museums are designed properly, they can be as open and accessible as a public plaza, and as intimate and intellectually spiritual and personal as a single encounter with a work of art. That’s really what we’re going for here in the new building.

PROJECT KEY FACTS

LACMA Building for the Permanent Collection

New building size: approximately 387,500 square feet replacing approximately 393,000 square feet of the existing Ahmanson, Hammer, and Art of the Americas buildings and the Leo S. Bing Center - a net reduction of approximately 5,300 square feet.

3.5 acres of new public outdoor space.

Existing parking spaces on the Spaulding lot will be relocated to a new parking structure on Ogden Drive.

Seamless integration of new building with the existing park and remaining LACMA buildings.